Vaping Is NOT Bioterrorism – Top Doctor Slams Fake News

Last week saw vaping described as akin to ‘bioterrorism’ and a ‘massive public-health disaster’ but one tobacco control expert says such ridiculous claims are both unacceptable and ‘unethical’.

Dr Michael Siegel is a professor at the Boston University School of Public Health with over thirty years in field of tobacco control and is a firm supporter of e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation tool.

He was scathing over the claims made by Harvard professor Jia Tolentino who also churned out the old lie – ooops sorry I meant line – that vaping causes popcorn lung – a claim proven to be false so many times now its getting silly.

On so called popcorn lung Dr Siegel said:

Claiming that vaping causes popcorn lung is irresponsible, as there is no evidence to back up the claim. If you’re going to tell the public that vaping causes a serious and often deadly progressive respiratory disease, you ought to have at least one — just one — case to back it up.

The truth is that there is no evidence that vaping causes bronchiolitis obliterans and despite having levels of diacetyl that are hundreds of times higher, smoking itself has not been linked to bronchiolitis obliterans.

As to the use of the word ‘bioterrorism’ to describe vape manufacturers he said:

The comparison to “bioterrorism” is also irresponsible and inappropriate.

Vaping companies are doing a tremendous service to millions of smokers throughout the U.S. who have been unable to quit using pharmaceuticals, but have succeeded in quitting thanks to electronic cigarettes.

To call these companies bioterrorists is despicable.

Dr Siegel was furious the article that appeared in the hugely popular New Yorker magazine had now mislead the nation adding:

Let’s be clear.

There are at least 2 million ex-smokers in the U.S. who have quit smoking because of electronic cigarettes.

To call this a public health disaster is to throw these 2 million former smokers under the bus and to essentially conclude that their lives don’t matter.

The rest of the story is that this Harvard professor has now misled the entire nation into thinking that vaping causes a serious, often fatal, progressive respiratory disease, without a shred of evidence that this is the case and with overwhelming evidence that it simply is not true.

Whatever you think about vaping and Juuling, lying to the public is not what we do in public health.

Big Tobacco Giant Looks To Sell To Invest In E-Cigarettes

Imperial Brands – the company behind lit tobacco names such as Gauloises and Winston are planning to sell off parts of their multin billion dollar business to invest heavily into the e-cigarette market.

The company already owns the hugely popular Blu e-cig brand but want more of the market particularly as smokers around the world are making the switch to vaping.

Chief executive Alison Cooper told This Is Money a decision on what to sell off hadn’t been made but IB was looking to raise around $2billion adding:

When you have got a dynamic like this happening – the opportunity for consumers to switch to new products – I think we are in a very strong position to capitalise on that growth.

Despite Blu bringing in profits of £569million in the first 6months of the year the company’s overall share price has fallen by as much as 30% in the last year.

Smokers today should be viewed as cholim (individuals with a sickness) who we must help heal. One cannot claim that “liberty” allows them to increase their burden on the health care system or bring harm to family members, coworkers, and strangers.

Urging the Jewish community to ‘scare people away from smoking’ and therefore one assumes the far healthier option of vaping – he says:

It is not only a social justice imperative; it is not only a health imperative; it is a Torah imperative.

Vaping and religion is not something I’d considered before – but given we know e-cigarettes are at least 95% safer than smoking one would think religious types might be a little more understanding…

…and Finally JUUL Hysteria Watch – Now It’s KILLING the Planet!

I do try to resist giving credence to the current hysterical media reporting on the JUUL phenomenon but sometimes I can’t resist taking a pop at the latest scare story!

This time it’s not about the crazy claims that so called JUULing is turning vast swathes of young Americans into nicotine addict zombies OR probably killing them by the truckload – though trust me I could have picked any of the zillions of such articles out there again this week lol.

Instead the JUUL is now killing the planet according to one bright young green thing.

But hey let’s all jump on the JUUL and e-cig BS bandwagon and never mind the fact vaping is actively saving lives which if truth be told the green police seem to think they are…

I’ve actually thought when I read the headline of this article it was going to suggest our vapour was destroying the so called ozone layer and therefore adding to cow farts as the reason for global warming…

Ooops looks like I might have just given the green brigade another anti-vape angle…watch this space I’m sure one of them will take that idea and run with it 😉

I began vaping over 6 years ago and found it easy to give up a 40 per day roll-up habit!
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